Orphans and Abandoned Children

Middle East/North Africa

February 6, 2020 News Release

Tunisia: Six Orphans Brought Home from Libya
Asia

October 16, 2018 News Release

China: Children Caught in Xinjiang Crackdown
Europe/Central Asia

October 10, 2018 News Release

Croatia: End Confinement of People with Disabilities

Reports More Reports

December 16, 2019

“These Children Don't Belong in the Streets”

A Roadmap for Ending Exploitation, Abuse of Talibés in Senegal
September 20, 2017

Iraq/KRG: 1,400 Women, Children From ISIS Areas Detained

Investigate Killings, Abductions of Foreign Men
February 22, 2017

“When Will I Get to Go Home?”

Abuses and Discrimination against Children in Institutions and Lack of Access to Quality Inclusive Education in Armenia

News

March 7, 2019 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on Senegal
February 15, 2018 Dispatches

Russian Court Says Foster Mother Unfit Because of ‘Male Behavior’

Kaitlin Martin
Alfa Fellow, Europe and Central Asia Division
November 17, 2017 Dispatches

Russian Government Takes Children from Foster Mother Because of Breast Surgery

Kaitlin Martin
Alfa Fellow, Europe and Central Asia Division
October 9, 2017 Commentary

ISIS’s Other Victims

Belkis Wille
Senior Researcher, Crisis and Conflict Division

Published In: Foreign Policy
September 25, 2017 News Release

Burma: Military Commits Crimes Against Humanity
September 20, 2017 Report

Iraq/KRG: 1,400 Women, Children From ISIS Areas Detained

Bill Van Esveld
Associate Director, MENA, Children's Rights Division
May 21, 2017 Dispatches

Armenia Should Prioritize Children Over Orphanages

Jane Buchanan
Deputy Director, Disability Rights Division
April 24, 2017 Dispatches

What I Told My Son About Starving Children in Belarus Orphanages

Shantha Rau Barriga
Director, Disability Rights Division
July 28, 2016 Report

Senegal: New Steps to Protect Talibés, Street Children

Lauren Seibert
Researcher, Children's Rights Division
June 8, 2016 Witness

Witness: As If My Child Were a Burden to Me

Birgit Schwarz
Communications Manager, Africa
June 8, 2016 News Release

Serbia: Children With Disabilities Neglected
May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Gift From Japan to Its Children

Kanae Doi
Japan Director

Daily Brief

February 21, 2020

Compassion, respect and hope are needed after killings in Germany; how nativist populism is going mainstream in Europe; progress on rights and justice is key to Sudan's transition; journalists face prison in Burundi; more evidence of China’s horrific abuses in Xinjiang; Australia should not cozy up to Myanmar’s army; searching for answers about people disappeared by ISIS; and death in custody of Rwandan singer and activist Kizito Mihigo must be investigated.